Sport and Society in Global France. Nations, Migrations, Corporations, Paperback - Cathal Kilcline

This book provides new insights into the evolution of the global sporting spectacle over the last thirty years through an analysis of star athletes...

This book provides new insights into the evolution of the global sporting spectacle over the last thirty years through an analysis of star athletes...

Space and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds - Michael Scott

Contributor(s): Author: Francois ChesnaisShort-listed for the The Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize. Across the world, economic recovery, g...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 1 Tables, black and whiteNumber of pages: 236Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 157 x 234 x 22Cover ...

This book is a study of the British casino industry and how it has been shaped by criminality, prohibition, regulation and liberalization since the...

Offers an evidence-based look at progress at the regional and country level, providing an overview of long-term trends since 1990, and focuses on p...

A pioneering treatment of the development and importance of writing in ancient Cypriot society, throughout the second and first millennia BC. Explo...

Politics and society in Central and South-East Europe - Zsuzsanna Kopeczny

Reducere. In this groundbreaking study, Jean-Pierre Vernant delineates a compelling new vision of ancient Greece. Myth and Society in Ancient Greece takes us...

An accessible, comprehensive introduction to the study of crime in Britain, helping you to understand and critically evaluate the key issues.

In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance.

Disease and Society in Premodern England examines the impact of infectious disease in England from the everyday to pandemics in the period c. 500-c...

DescriptionIn popular imagination few phenomena are as strongly associated with medieval society as knighthood and chivalry. At the same time, and ...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Rita (Assisstant Professor, University of Iowa) ZajaczIllustration(s): 4 b 8 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of...

A broad, pioneering interpretation of the scope, patterns, and consequences of human migrations over the past ten centuries

Reducere. Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe offers students a concise introduction to health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800. Bringing toge...

Few sources reveal the life of the ancient Romans as vividly as do the houses preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius. Wealthy Romans lavished resour...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

By 1940 going to the movies was the most popular form of public leisure in Britain's empire. This book explores the social and cultural impact of t...

A defining feature of Victorian Britain was its fascination with statistics, and this study shows how data influenced every aspect of Victorian cul...

Can a long-term perspective on human adaptations to climate change inform Ireland's response to the crisis we face today?Climate and Society in Ire...

A collection of essays examining literary discussions of the role of science, focusing on the interactions between processes of knowledge formation...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This volume examines how the political, economic and social changes of the Great Depression impacted on Hollywood and how it responded to them.

Bringing together previously unpublished sources in Arabic, Persian and Turkish, Peacock focuses on the period of Mongol domination in Anatolia in ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

An attack on the idea that nature and society are impossible to distinguish from each other

The Edinburgh Festival is the world's largest arts festival. It has also been the site of numerous 'culture wars' since it began in 1947. This book...

Reducere. A biography of an important but largely forgotten nineteenth-century scientist whose work helped lay the foundation of modern neuroscience.Emil du ...

Reducere. Statecraft and Society in China. Chinese grassroots politics中国社会政经方略Edition 2021 - Frans VandenboschThe title of this book Statecraft and Society i...

The essays collected here reconstruct the experiences of vagrants, laborers, religious exiles, refugees, and other migrants during the last five hu...

Through bilateral, multilateral and especially interregional relationships, both Europe and East Asia are now actively engaging with other regions ...

Moving from France to the Caribbean to the American continent, Creole Drama follows the people that created and sustained French theatre culture in...

Reducere. DescriptionThis study of politics and the role of the state in the Arab world is aimed at students of Middle East politics, political theory and po...

Expanded and updated, Charles Eisenstein's classic treatise on capitalism, currency, and the gift economy. This revised version traces the history ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Alan R. H. (University of Cambridge, UK) BakerIllustration(s): 13 MapsNumber of pages: 248Publica...

The Mesolithic in Britain proposes a new division of the Mesolithic period into four parts, each with its distinct character.Publisher: Taylor & Fr...

The People's Game is the first comprehensive history of football in East Germany. McDougall offers fresh perspectives on how the country's most pop...

This edited volume examines the political, social, and economic developments in contemporary Spain, with a particular focus on the period of the So...

Using a wide range of prosecution and trial records, along with more recent newspaper coverage of court proceedings, this book furnishes a fascinat...

This book examines the ways in which the people of an Oaxacan village practice traditional cooperative and reciprocal relationships.Publisher: Univ...

Publisher: Gallic BooksNumber of pages: 1392Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 130 x 198 x 58Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Stephane Ger...

The nascent movement to enact a nuclear ban treaty has reframed the problem of nuclear weapons from defense strategies to the issues of humanitaria...

This Guide highlights the often-shocking examples of VAWE around the world, and showcases the innovative prevention and response measures being tes...

Reducere. The War for Independence touched virtually every American. It promised liberty, the opportunity for a better life, and the excitement of the battle...

Reducere. DescriptionMedieval society was dominated by its knights and nobles. The literature created in medieval Europe was primarily a literature of knight...

Explores past and contemporary issues affecting state-society relations in Iraq

The Kuwaiti population includes around 100, 000 people - approximately 10 per cent of the Kuwaiti nationals -whose legal status is contested. Often...